Re:Invent 2023: The Standout Announcements - Day 1

Anda's picks — Anda (Professional Solutions Architect AWS)

1. Announcing new enhancements to Amazon CodeWhisperer

   • Blog post : Amazon CodeWhisperer offers new AI-powered code remediation, IaC support, and integration with Visual Studio

2. Introducing Cost Optimization Hub

   • Blog post : New Cost Optimization Hub centralizes recommended actions to save you money

3. AWS Free Tier usage is now available through the GetFreeTierUsage API

   • Blog post : Check your AWS Free Tier usage programmatically with a new API

My top 3 announcements

1. You can now customize security controls in AWS Security Hub

2. Application Load Balancer increases application availability with Automatic Target Weights

3. Application Load Balancer can authenticate X.509 certificate based identities with Mutual TLS support

Other announcements that will bring value to our architectures

Billing and Costs

• Announcing Data Exports for AWS Billing and Cost Management
• Amazon Web Services announces Unified Billing and Cost Management console
• Introducing Cost Optimization Hub
• Announcing the Cost and Usage Dashboard powered by Amazon QuickSight

Storage

• Announcing the new Amazon EFS Archive storage class
• Amazon CloudWatch Logs announces Infrequent Access log class

Compute

• AWS Compute Optimizer introduces customizable rightsizing recommendations for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Instances

Kubernetes

• Amazon EKS introduces EKS Pod Identity

VDA

• Amazon WorkSpaces Multi-Region Resilience launches one-way data replication

Gen AI

• AWS Step Functions launches optimized integration for Amazon Bedrock

Observability

• AWS announces CloudWatch Logs Anomaly Detection and Pattern analysis
• Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus launches an agentless collector for Prometheus metrics from Amazon EKS
• CloudWatch now supports hybrid and multicloud metrics querying and alarming
• Amazon CloudWatch announces AI-powered natural language query generation (in preview)
• AWS Config launches generative AI-powered natural language querying (Preview)

Data

• AWS Glue Data Quality announces anomaly detection and dynamic rules

IaC

• AWS CloudFormation introduces Git management of stacks

Security

• Amazon Detective announces investigations for AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
• Amazon Detective introduces finding group summaries using generative AI
• AWS Secrets Manager now supports batch retrieval of secrets
• Amazon GuardDuty now supports runtime monitoring for Amazon EC2 (Preview)
• Introducing Amazon GuardDuty Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) Runtime Monitoring, including AWS Fargate
• Amazon S3 Access Grants integrate with identity providers to simplify data lake permissions
• AM Access Analyzer introduces custom policy checks powered by automated reasoning

Other

• AWS Systems Manager Automation makes it easier to author runbooks with new low-code visual design experience
• Announcing the general availability of AWS re:Post Private
• Announcing AWS Console-to-Code (Preview) to generate code for console actions
• Automate AWS Control Tower landing zone operations using APIs